(July 30, 2015 at 10:23 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:(July 30, 2015 at 6:22 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Not for me to say. Should stamp collectors have a future? Should investment bankers? Climate change deniers? Of the one you ask about and the three I brought up, if I could only only eliminate two, religion wouldn't make the cut.
(July 30, 2015 at 6:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: 'Stamp collectors' at least, do no harm.
Right so if I could only do away with two of them, I'd keep the philatelists and give the religionists a pass. But the vulture investment bankers and climate change deniers, I'd do them in first.
The thing is, there is a good deal of overlap between those categories. I suspect that if you got rid of the religionists and the investment bankers, you would have few, if any, climate change deniers left. So my advice is to select the religionists and investment bankers.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
